In conclusion, White Rage is an important educational resource to further the goal of creating a more just society. Chapter five presents the election of President Barack Obama and the ramifications attendant thereunto. Chapter four discusses the events of the Civil Rights movement. Chapter two covers the Great Migration of Southern Blacks. Carol Anderson's 2016 nonfiction book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, looks at the way African-American progress has been halted and repressed, again and again, by a powerful cocktail of economic self-interest, fear, and hatred on the part of America's white elites, a philosophy she calls 'white rage.' The book’s five. She notes the damage done by white rage in the conclusion to her introduction: “white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars on baseless incarceration, rendered an entire region sick, poor, and woefully uneducated, and left cities nothing less than decimated” (6)Ĭhapter one deals with the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. But what triggers white rage? She answers: “The trigger for white rage, inevitably, black advancement” (3). Then she writes: “This led to an epiphany: what was really at work was white rage” (4). First, she says, she looked at what was considered black rage, i.e., “looting, rioting or other forms of visible violent protest” (3). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University professor Carol Anderson. In the prologue titled, interestingly enough, “Kindling,” Anderson explains how she arrived at the kind of rage that she would be writing about. She also provides an extensive Notes section (82 pages), expounding on aspects of each chapter and including a section for discussion and recommended reading. I have everything and I still am not getting the free ride that I thought I should get.In five chapters and a prologue, Carol Anderson takes the reader on a scintillating journey from the Reconstruction Period to the Age of Obama.

The lack of comparability between a privileged billionaire who feels under siege because people are asking questions about her capability to do the job and a little girl whose life was threatened to me points to the same Abigail Fisher syndrome we talked about earlier. She had to pass by epithets on the walls to get into that building, which was surrounded by the National Guard.

Looking at multi-gazillionaire Betsy DeVos, who is surrounded by privilege on all sides, being compared to Ruby Bridges - a 6-year-old girl who just wanted to get a decent education and has angry whites threatening to kill her. You look at university and college presidents. Woe is me, everyone is picking on me, I’m under siege. White resentment requires a sense of its own victimhood.

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